Window-shade hanger.



No. 703,378. Patented July I, I902.

S. BLAUSTEIN.

WINDOW SHADE HANGER.

(Application filed Dec. 18, 1901.)

(no Model.)

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFEIOEQ SOLOMON BLAUSTEIN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

WINDOW- SHADE HANGER.

srncrrroarron forming part of Letters Patent No. 70 dated July 1, 1902- Application filed December 18, 1901. Serial No. 36,425. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, SOLOMON BLAUSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful WVindow-Shade Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in window-shade hangers.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of window-shade hangers and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one adapted to support a spring-roller curtain-shade and capableof raising and lowering the same bodily to arrange the Window-shade at any portion of a window and to space the same from the top of the window to provide ventilation and light at the upper portion thereof.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a window-shade hanger constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the same. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the bracket or bar. Fig. 4: is an enlarged vertical sectional View of one end of the bracket or bar. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail perspective view of one end of the transverse bar or bracket.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the-figures of the drawlugs.

1 designates a transversely-disposed horizontal curtain shade supporting bar provided at the ends with forwardly or outwardly projecting casings 2, open at the front, and provided at the inner side walls with extensions 3 and 4," having bearing-openings adapted to receive thejournals of a spring-roller of a curtain-shade 5. The opening of the extension 3 is formed by a slot or recess andreceives the squared'journal, which is connected with the spring of the spring-roller in the usual manner, and the other extension 1 is provided with a circular opening to receive the other journal of the spring-roller. By this construction a springroller curtain-shade is readily mounted on and removed from the transverse bar or bracket. The casings may be constructed in any suitable manner and are adapted to receive grooved antifriction-rollers 6. The outer walls of the casing are preferably formed by extending the ends of the bar outward at right angles, and the inner and top walls of the casingjare formed integralwith each other and are riveted or otherwise secured to the transverse bar; but the casings may be constructed in any other suitable manner.

The grooved rollers, which are arranged within the end casings of the transverse bar, are mounted on suitable spindles; but they may be journaled in any other suitable manner, and the top and bottom walls'of the end casings are provided with apertures 7 through which pass guides 8, mounted on the windowframe at opposite sidesthereof and receiving the end rollers or wheels. The end guides, which may consist of stout wire, rods, braided wire, or other similar construction, also receive eyes 9, extending horizontally from the bottom of the curtain-shade at opposite sides thereof and preferably mounted on the wooden stick-whichis usually arranged in a casing at thebottom of the window-shade. These eyes prevent the curtain-shade from moving laterally and from rolling up unevenly on the shade-roller, and they also prevent t-heside edges of the curtain-shade from becoming worn or otherwise injured by uneven rolling; The end casings of the transverse bar or bracket are also open at the back, and the end rollers or wheels project beyond the rear or inner face of the transverse bar; but the rollers or wheelsmay be mounted entirely within the end casings, if desired.

V The transverse bar is provided-with a central opening 10, and it has a central casing 11 mounted on'it and arranged at the inner or rear face of the bar'atthe central opening 10. This bracket-casing 11, whichqis open at the back, may be constructed imanyfother suitable manner, and it is provided at the top-and bottom walls withapertures 1'2, and

it receives a central antifriction roller or wheel 6, which is grooved to engage a central guide 13. The central guide, which may and lower apertures of the central casing and is arranged in the groove of the central roller or wheel. The central guide extends from the top to the bottom of the window-frame, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and it assists in guiding the transverse bracket or bar.

The transverse bar or bracket is supported by side cords 14:, depending from side pulleys l5 and secured to the bar or bracket near the ends thereof, preferably by being tied to rings 16, which are linked into perforations of the bar or bracket; but the depending portions of the side cords may be secured to the bracket or bar in any other suitable manner. The side cords or branches 14: extend inward horizontally from the side pulleys 15 to a pair of central pulleys 17, whereby they are connected with a central cord or branch 18, and the latter extends downward to a bottom roller 19 and is coiled around the same. The central cord then passes upward from the bottom roller and is secured to a depending portion of the bracket. The side cords or branches may be connected with a central cord or branchin any suitable manner, and the crotch formed by the inner ends of the side cords is adapted to engage the central pulleys to form a stop for limiting the downward movement of the bracket or bar to prevent the same from being drawn down to the extreme bottom of the window-frame. The bottom roller 19 is mounted in suitable bearing brackets or supports 20, and in order to cause the central cord to roll up smoothly on the bottom roller 19 an upper parallel roller 21 is also mounted between the brackets 20; but this roller may be omitted, if desired. The space between the two rollers 19 and 21is about equal to the thickness of the curtain-cord,which will thereby be prevented from overlapping and rolling up unevenly on the bottom roller. As the central cord unwinds from one side of the bottom roller it will wind up on the other side, and by keeping the cord smooth on the bottom roller in this manner it willprevent anyvariation in the tension of the cord. Any suitable means may, if desired, be employed for locking the bottom roller against movement to secure the curtain at any desired adjustment. The depending portion 22 of the bracket to which the central cord is secured may be constructed of wire or any other suitable material, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and it is provided with an eye or opening for the reception of the end of the central cord.

It will be seen that the windowshade hanger is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is strong and dura ble, and that it is adapted to receive an ordinary spring-roller and is capable of raising and lowering a windoW-shade'bodily to arrange the same at any portion of a window and to provide ventilation and light above the curtain or shade.

What I claim is- 1. A device of the class described comprising central and side guides, a bracket or bar provided with central and side casings having top and bottom apertures receiving the guides, rollers or wheels mounted within the casings and arranged to run on the guides, means for raising and lowering the bracket or bar, and a Window-shade mounted on the bracket or bar, substantially as described.

2. A device of the class described comprising a bracket or bar, side pulleys, central pul-' leys, a central branch or cord and the side branches or cords arranged on the said pulleys and connected at their outer ends with the bracket or bar and at their inner ends with the central cord or branch, the inner ends forming a crotch arranged to engage the central pulleys, substantially as described.

3. A device of the class described comprising the central and side pulleys designed to be arranged at the top of a window, a bottom roller, a transverse bar or bracket, the side cords or branches arranged on the pulleys and forming a crotch for engaging the central pulleys and connected at their outer ends to the bracket or bar, and the central branch or cord wound around the bottom roller and connected with the bracket or bar and with the inner ends of the side cords or branches, substantially as described.

4. A device of the class described comprising the central and side pulleys designed to be mounted at the top of a window, the bottom rollers 19 and 21 designed to be mounted at the bottom of the window, a transverse bar or bracket, the side cords arranged on the central and side pulleys and forming a crotch and connected with the bracket or bar, and the central cord or branch wound around the roller 19 and connected with the bracket or bar and with the inner ends of the side cords or branches, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SOLOMON BLAUSTEIN.

Witnesses:

J. H. J OOHUM, J r., FRANK S. APPLEMAN. 

